May 01 2008
Advice?
I am currently debating whether or not to attend the summer Wonderful Hearts concert, and before you say, “You fool! Of course you should go!!” please hear me out. The concerts are on August 2nd and 3rd. I will be in Japan staying with friends starting in mid July, but I’ll only have moved to my residence in Saitama a few days before. I won’t be very familiar with the area yet, so I’m concerned that I won’t be able to figure out the train system in time to safely get myself there. Also, I’ll probably be very busy trying to set up house in my new apartment. Finally, I’m unsure whether or not I will have training activities for my job that day. It’s a weekend, and the contract says I don’t work weekends, but since it’s the very beginning, there might be activities anyway. I suppose they might get over before the concerts, but with my lack to train skillz, I don’t want to cut the timing too close. I do really want to go though, and an all Wonderful Hearts concert would be a great way to kick off my year in Japan, wouldn’t it?
Then, assuming that I can work out all of the problems mentioned above, what sort of tickets ought I to get? On the one hand, as a 5’4” 115lb female, I’m worried that if I sit on the main level I will be accidentally trampled by overenthusiastic dancing wota or perhaps take an elbow to the face and break my nose or something. I’d imagine being rushed to the emergency room would be a pretty effective way to ruin my concert-going experience. Also, I don’t really intend to dance along, because I want to actually watch the concert, so I’m worried people might get annoyed if I’m not dancing with everyone. On the other hand, I don’t want to have to bring binoculars just to make out which girl is which. I’m going to the concert to actually see them, and that might be difficult if I’m sitting up in the “family” section.
Help?
~Celestia~
I can’t really give you any advice of my own since I’ve never been to an H!P concert before either, but I would suggest posting this question on some H!P boards like H!O. There are several people there who have been to H!P concerts before and they should be able to give you some advice on the tickets, etc.
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Celestia, let me start by saying that the train system is very convenient and easy to use! I figured it out the first day I was there. I believe the August show is at Yoyogi Stadium, which is right next to Shibuya AX, in between Shibuya and Harajuku. Harajuku is on the Yamanote “green” line which you can catch from many points in Tokyo, and Shibuya station serves alot of different lines. The walk is a little longer, maybe a 10 minute walk versus a five minute walk from Harajuku. I think you’ll be surprised on the convenience of the transportation. Check out the JR line web site.
As far as the seating, I highly recommend you get as good a seat as possible. You’ll kick yourself if you don’t. It’s not standing room only, I’m pretty sure they have actual seats at YS, so you’ll have your own little space. The raucous crowd “in front” is not nearly as bad as you’d expect. At Yokohama, everyone kept to their own space and basically jumped vertically up and down. It wasn’t a “mosh pit” by any means. It looks alot more intimidating in the DVD’s than it actually is, IMO. And there were a few girls near where I was sitting. They didn’t look any worse for the wear!
If you have any questions, feel free to ask!
Have fun! CK